And there are plenty of things that are strongly integrated into society too, but we have to let them go when it's time. There are scores of these examples in society. I dont think BJAODN is on the same level as say, slavery, so I wont detail a list, but this is just to point out that argument 1 is entirely fallacious as an argument to keep something around.
As for argument 2, we are, first and foremost, a free content project. We dont create this encyclopedia for us, but for downstream users. We support and nurture free content. It's one of the Five Pillars. Just because we can get away with breaking a free content license does not mean we should. Go fork if this is what you truly believe.
On 6/2/07, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/2/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
Let's just get this straight: does anybody claim that these pages are necessary to the encyclopedia?
Necessary: no more so than most of our rules, guidelines, procedures, templates, user-pages, user-page templates, and other miscellaneous administrative mechanisms -- or, in fact, this mailing list. But, desirable -- yes.
Here's what I said in my last message on the subject, in the other thread:
"Note that ironically enough, I counted 9 !votes to "move to BJAODN" on other MfDs for completely unrelated articles... BJAODN is a stronger part of Wikipedia's culture than many people realize. In general, things that make people feel like they are part of a community are useful, including open in-jokes. If we are busted for not following the GFDL (by whom, exactly? with what interpretation?) it's not going to be for this part of the site."
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